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qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

lfm2.5:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

lfm2moe · 8.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 11, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-8350U

Global Score
70 vs 73
Hardware Fit
93 vs 93
Quality Score
60 vs 65

Hardware

qwen3.5-2b-mlx lfm2.5:latest
MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20L7CTO1WW
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-8350U
Cores108
RAM32 GB23 GB
GPUApple M4Kaby Lake-R GT2 [UHD Graphics 620]
OSmacOS 26.3Fedora Linux 44
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.5-2b-mlx lfm2.5:latest
Tokens/sec32.918.3
First chunk3096 ms981 ms
TTFT3.1 s981 ms
Load timeN/A8.0 s
Memory usage2.5 GB4.9 GB
Memory %8%21%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
13/20
Memory
30/30

lfm2.5:latest

Speed
43/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

lfm2.5:latest

Reasoning
2/20
Coding
11/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
13/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest